Lead Econometrician
Summary
| Title: | Lead Econometrician |
|---|---|
| ID: | 3027 |
| Department: | Operations |
| Location : | Riyadh |
| Nationality : | Saudi Arabia |
| Industry: | Government |
| Type of Contract : | Full-time |
Description
Responsibilities
Qualifications
- Conduct day-to-day activities while ensuring compliance to policies and procedures
- Contribute to the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of systems, processes in line with leading practices
- Establish working relationships with relevant internal stakeholders
- Collect feedback from internal stakeholders on issues being faced and other requirements
- Contribute to the preparation of progress reports directed to all relevant stakeholders to keep them informed of progress
- Support in the development of guidelines and methodologies for econometrics studies in line with international best practices
- Support in feasibility studies and business cases development for relevant initiatives / projects
- Support in developing technical proposals for relevant initiatives / projects including detailed description of the proposed work and resources required
- Engage with concerned stakeholders to align on relevant requirements and expectations, and request clarifications as needed to develop plans accordingly
- Formulate hypothesis through defining theory to be tested and determining relevant variables in line with communicated requirements and expectations, and conduct preliminary qualitative analyses
- Develop econometric model through representing the formulated hypothesis mathematically and introducing relevant random errors and new variables
- Identify type of data (i.e., time-series, cross-section, panel) and techniques (i.e., linear regression, multiple regression, quantile regression, etc.) needed to conduct econometric analyses
- Oversee econometric analyses and assess outcomes to determine economic efficiency and implement model changes as needed
- Support in the development of reports consolidating hypotheses, assumptions, data, methodology and approach, and all relevant analyses and forecasts
- Analyze and consolidate inputs into evaluation report or control dashboard to enable corrections and modifications throughout the process, and escalate unresolved issues
- Develop post-process evaluation reports highlighting issues and deviations of performance metrics from expected values
Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience in a Statistics field
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics / Statistics or equivalent is required
